Release notes

AI summaries ✨

• Get concise overviews for almost any content in your library.
• Text length is no barrier... Whether you're dealing with a brief article, a lengthy Twitter thread, or a 50-page PDF, we've got you covered.
• Supports 3 types of summaries
• Intro: A quick snapshot
• Key Points: Essential bullet points
• Summary: Detailed paragraphs

Sign in with Magic Link, new icon set & other UX improvements

• Sign in with Magic Link (works with email address previously used through Google or Apple)
• Updated our icon set throughout the app and Upnext branded loading indicator
• After 2+ years, we sunset many of the emojis in our UX, replacing them with new icons
• Fixed log in UX bug on iPad
• Various other small UX improvements

Keyboard shortcuts

• Bug which would disable using keyboard shortcuts multiple times in the reader
• Improvements to scrolling with keyboard in library
• Add, edit and save from Note dialog
• Several instances where using ESC on dialogs navigate back multiple routes.

Save private content

• Save any articles or posts that are behind a paywall or require you to be signed in.
• All you need to do is save while you can see the paywalled/private content from a web browser on mobile or desktop.
• Requires upgrading to latest browser extensions on desktop.

Performance improvements for web and macOS

• Upnext is now blazing fast on web and macOS as well 🔥

Performance improvements for iOS

• Upnext is now blazing fast on iOS and iPadOS
• h/t @babeoleary for a huge effort to optimize our data model and query performance!
• Various other improvements: e.g. app badge count, unnecessary scroll indicators, dynamic island support

Tweet/thread support

• Improved presentation of rendering tweets and threads in the reader on all platforms
• Disconnect accounts on desktop
• Support for importing from Goodlinks
• List sort settings from mobile are reflected on desktop

Review modes, audio player update & continue session

• Reviews are more powerful: New Items, In Progress, Everything
• Audio player refresh: both mini and full-screen player got a fresh new look
• Make timestamped notes from the mini-player
• Swipe left and right on the mini-player to rewind or skip forward
• Continue your last session: continue reading, listening or watching with a single tap from the Home screen
• Auto save notes when editing

Reworked settings screen

• Reorganized the old and noisy Account screen into a multi-level settings screen on all platforms
• Updated list of supported integrations and import sources (with instructions)

Sharing to Twitter

• Share your lists and annotated content directly to Twitter (iOS & macOS)
• New sharing modal

Refresh of shared pages

• Improved UI & UX of public pages: shared list, shared annotations and unrolled threads.
• High-res favicon for web app
• Favicon is now optimized for pinning web app as an application on Windows

Miscellaneous improvements

• Web App now has a high-res favicon for all major browsers and when pinning to Windows task bar.
• Share list from web/desktop
• Dynamic Island support on iPhone 14 Pro
• Fixed audio player positioning on iOS
• Onboarding improvements for new users.

Notion integration

• Incorporate your annotations in your writing and knowledge system
• Connect your Notion account from the Account screen
• Your highlights and notes will automatically sync to the Upnext page in your workspace.
• Other small improvements to iOS and desktop apps

Miscellaneous improvements

• Update sort settings for “My Lists” on Account page (web)
• Enable fullscreen for Youtube videos (web)
• Improved responsiveness when you swipe on a piece of content (iOS)
• Fixed broken font selector (iOS)

Upnext for Mac

• Upnext is now available as a standalone Mac app!
• Save content using MacOS’ native Share feature
• Optimized UX for fullscreen reading on your Mac
• Various performance improvements to make Upnext for Mac blazing fast

iOS Widgets & core UI changes

• iOS Widgets: display your recent saves or Daily Picks on your phone’s Home screen!
• We’ve streamlined the core UI of Upnext for iOS:
• Three main tabs: Home, Library & Updates
• Search tab is now a button on the Library screen
• Account button was moved to the home screen
• Simplified navigation on the Updates screen.

Quick filters on Web

• The sidebar now has quick filters for Short reads, Long reads, PDFs, Video and Threads. (Audio filters will be added when we add audio player to web app)
• Daily digest email links open in the web app, and continues to deeplink into iOS app on mobile.

Reader Settings: Margin & Line spacing

• Reader settings now allows adjusting the line spacing and size of margin (especially handy on larger screens)
• Small improvements
• Long press on an item to open the actions menu (iOS)
• Right click on a link to save to Upnext (browser extension)
• RTL support (reader)
• Mark items as archived when you import from file

Create and edit lists

• Create new lists and edit your existing lists via the Web app
• Change list icon and poster image
• Performance improvements for browser extension and web app

Claim username, connect Twitter & Readwise

• Additional mobile features now available via the web app:
• Claim your username and create your mailbox for forwarding newsletters
• Connect your Twitter account
• Connect your Readwise account

Import from file

• Import your content by uploading a CSV or HTML file
• Instructions on how to export your content from Instapaper, Raindrop and other popular services.
• Various bug fixes were released for iOS app

PDF support

• Save any PDF:
• Save a web link to the PDF file
• Upload PDF file: share the file with Upnext for iOS, or drag-and-drop the file onto our web app
• Open in our new built-in PDF Viewer (available for iOS and web)
• Make highlights and notes on your PDFs

Web onboarding + browser extension UX

• Added onboarding for saving, the reader and keyboard shortcuts to Web app
• Browser extension icon now shows a small, green checkmark after you saved content

Improved: Open-it-now & podcast support

• Open-it-now now supports Youtube. Save any Youtube video and immediately start watching it in Upnext 🔥
• Fixed parsing bug which caused inconsistent results when saving podcasts from Apple Podcasts & Spotify

Subscriptions & Reduced Motion

• Added subscription status to Account screen (all platforms) and link to subscription management page
• Disabled all animation on Web App if user has “Reduced Motion” accessibility setting enabled in their OS

Account screen & keyboard shortcuts

• Additional settings for web app
• Links to important resources on account screen
• Added additional keyboard shortcuts (press ` key to see all shortcuts)

Search, Open it now & Youtube player

• Search (any content in your library)
• Open-it-now (requires latest browser extension)
• Youtube player (no progress or annotations yet)
• Various UX improvements and bug fixes
• Links/lookup open in new tab
• Scroll reader with up/down keys
• Theme flashes in dark mode

Save/Resume, Dark theme & Account

• Save & Resume progress
• Dark theme
• Account settings (including preferred theme)
• Bug fixes
• Show pointer when hovering on highlights
• Underline links in the reader
• Selecting/highlighting text in reader (Firefox)

First beta release of Web app

• Library & Lists: access to all your content
• Reader: read in the browser with customizable font settings.
• Annotations: make highlights and notes, overview of all annotations
• Actions: archive, delete, open original, share
• Open-it-now: start reading immediately on desktop when you save from the browser extension (require update of browser extension, still in review with extension stores)
• Keyboard shortcuts